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A civilian driver for naval officers and a sailor posted at the Visakhapatnam Naval Base are in judicial custody till October 14

Rio Times · USA & Canada Intelligence Brief September 30, 2026 — The full set of banned Canadian vehicles, dairy and alcohol covers an estimated US$19.9 billion in imports, the American Action Forum calculated; Navarro warned Canada against border-state lobbying and Trump priced Ottawa's return at an apology; Treasury sanctioned ten names over Iranian weapons procurement; New York Fed chief Williams said there was no urgency to raise rates while the 30-year yield crossed 5.6 per cent; Quebec entered the final five days of its campaign. The post USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Wednesday, September 30, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Rio Times · Europe Intelligence Brief September 30, 2026 — A second consecutive strike night killed at least four — Reuters counted five — and damaged Kyiv's power supply, while Poland scrambled jets and Rzeszów and Lublin airports briefly suspended operations; German inflation rose in five states at once with the national print forecast at 3.2 per cent; Vučić announced an early resignation and a snap election for 25 October; King Felipe VI put Ceuta on the state-dinner table during Macron's visit; Commissioner Jørgensen put the year's extra energy bill above €100 billion. The post Europe Intelligence Brief — Wednesday, September 30, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Rio Times · Asia Intelligence Brief September 30, 2026 — China's official manufacturing PMI rose to 50.1 and the private RatingDog reading hit 52.1, a five-month high; Seoul demanded North Korea stop border fortification work and Pyongyang answered through KCNA, calling the mine investigation a farce; the UN Command found an armistice violation; Beijing accused Taipei of desecrating the martyrs; the Nikkei rose 2.1 per cent inside a 4.7-per-cent quarterly fall while the CSI 300 closed its worst quarter since the pandemic. The post Asia Intelligence Brief — Wednesday, September 30, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Rio Times · Africa Intelligence Brief September 30, 2026 — The Dangote refinery breaks ground in Lamu with President Ruto leading the ceremony and three neighbours taking a combined 30 per cent; Ethiopia's army chief accuses Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt of backing his opposition, and Sudan counters with an RSF charge; Pretoria summons US Ambassador Bozell for the third time in nine months; Burkina Faso's refinery gets its numbers — 164 tonnes now, 515 promised; Zambia opens its books to the IMF. The post Africa Intelligence Brief — Wednesday, September 30, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Rio Times · USA & Canada Intelligence Brief September 29, 2026 — US import bans on nearly US$1 billion of Canadian alcohol, dairy and motorcycles took effect at 12:01 a.m.; Trump denies offering Iran sanctions relief, saying he offered 'nothing'; Rubio warns Cuba not to wait out the administration; Canada's producers pivot domestic while conceding provincial barriers; Treasury yields sit near two-decade highs with the Gulf unpriced. The post USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Tuesday, September 29, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Rio Times · Europe Intelligence Brief September 29, 2026 — Russian drone strikes kill nine across Ukraine, reaching the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv; gas crosses eighty euros per megawatt hour and the euro slides two per cent; France's civil servants strike against the budget; Brussels concedes Ceuta's images beat its statistics; Meloni and Babis schedule an ETS2 postponement for the October summit; Britain's retailers warn of four-per-cent inflation by 2027. The post Europe Intelligence Brief — Tuesday, September 29, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Rio Times · Asia Intelligence Brief September 29, 2026 — South Korea names North Korean mines as the DMZ culprit and invokes the armistice; Malaysia deports around 1,500 Myanmar nationals over UN objections; Vietnam announces terrorism arrests with two Western passports, made at the Cambodian crossing; Bank Indonesia defends the rupiah at its weakest since August; Beijing's counter-cyclical pledge moves the tape faintly; Korea's export streak is forecast to reach sixteen months. The post Asia Intelligence Brief — Tuesday, September 29, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Canadian and US diplomats in Havana fell ill with unexplained symptoms from 2016. The Globe and Mail now reports, citing two sources, that Canadians were working with US intelligence at the time; Ottawa denies it. The post Canada Denies Its Diplomats Spied for the US in Cuba in Havana Syndrome Era appeared first on The Rio Times.

Europe Intelligence Brief — Friday, 25 September 2026 The Gran Vía in Madrid. The eviction of an 87-year-old woman from the flat her family had rented since 1956 has put an anti-eviction decree on the Spanish… The post Europe Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 25, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Asia Intelligence Brief — Friday, 25 September 2026 Ceremonial guards in Bangkok. Thailand spent the week under a rain warning covering forty-eight provinces while its election commission was picketed from the reformist left and the nationalist… The post Asia Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 25, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Africa Intelligence Brief — Friday, 25 September 2026 Antananarivo seen over Lake Anosy. Streets around Anosy and Ambohidahy were closed from seven in the morning for the first anniversary of the revolt that brought the present… The post Africa Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 25, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Asia Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 18, 2026 A crude tanker passing storage tanks at an oil terminal. Saudi Arabia offered extra cargoes to Asian refiners through ship-to-ship transfers off Oman’s Sohar port, and Brent settled… The post Asia Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 18, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Africa Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 18, 2026 A shelter in a camp for people displaced by Sudan’s war. At Al-Zaraa in West Kordofan the Sudanese Doctors Network counted at least 67 dead in the mine… The post Africa Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 18, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.

Europe Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 18, 2026 Stockholm. The count from the election of 13 September closed at 176 seats to 173, Ulf Kristersson resigned as prime minister on 17 September, and parliament cannot vote… The post Europe Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 18, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.